Hair treating device



'Dec. 18, 1956 A. ZACHARY HAIR TREATING DEVICE Filed Den. 4, 1951 1N VEN TOR.

Alexis Zachary BY 74%; 7 Ja /Z1 ATTOR NE United States Patent HAIR TREATING DEVICE Alexis Zachary, New York, N. Y.

Application December 4, 1951, Serial No. 259,785

3 Claims. (Cl. 13234) My invention relates to improvements in devices for treating the hair of the human head; and especially implements by which such hair is formed into curls and ringlets to improve ones looks. The invention is well adapted for use in dressing the hair of women, in conjunction with the standard lotions now widely employed for such purposes; to the end that for a time the curls and ringlets are enabled to retain the desired shape.

An important object of this invention is to provide forming implements that can be easily manipulated to produce curls and ringlets in the hair, and quickly removed without breaking any of the separate locks or deranging the formations which are obtained by such means. The turns and coils in each tuft of hair can thus be freed and readily secured with ordinary small pins or clips, while the attendant performs the remaining necessary operations.

In many beauty parlors the devices for imparting to the tufts of hair the finished ornate appearance, are such that they must be kept in place on the head till the task or" the attendant is about completed. A considerable number of such devices are utilized for the head of each customer, usually proving bothersome and uncomfortable; and their presence frequently causes some of the locks of hair to break and keeps the permanent wave lotion from reaching all the locks and tresses in the tuft; hence the effect is not uniform and the final result more or less unsatisfactory. With my invention this objection is entirely obviated.

Other objects and the advantages of the invention are fully set forth hereinafter, and the characteristics of the improvements are defined in the appended claims. But this disclosure is explanatory only and variations in structural details may be adopted without departing from the essential design in which the invention resides.

On the drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section of a hair treating implement according to this invention.

Figure 2 is a bottom plan thereof.

Figure 3 is a side view of ringlets formed with the aid of my invention.

Figures 4 and 5 are respectively a side elevation and a longitudinal section of a modification of the invention.

Figure 5a is a sectional detail thereof; on line aa of Figure 5.

I shall refer first to the embodiment of the invention that I have illustrated on Figures 4 and 5. This comprises a member in the shape of a round tubular bar 1 having an open end 2, and a closed end 3. The rod or bar serves as a core or mandrel about which a tuft of hair is wound to form a ringlet, for example; and then the bar or rod is removed. Inside the bar is a coiled compression spring 4 which seats at one end against the closed end 3, and on the outside of the body 1 is a slidable collar or flanged head 5. The hollow bar or tubular rod 1 has a longitudinal slot 6 adjacent the spring. The collar is held by the spring at a predetermined distance from the closed end 3, but can be pulled towards the end 3 against the force of the spring 4. Afixed to the collar is a stem 7 that extends along the outside of the bar 1 towards the open end 2, this stem being of such length that when the collar 5 is not retracted or pulled towards the end 3, the free end of the stem or finger 7 is about flush with the open end 2 of the body 1. Part of the stem 7 also lies in the slot 6. Its inner edge 8 is widened, as shown in Figure 5a, so that it cannot be withdrawn from the slot 6, and a shoulder 9 on the stem 7 abuts the end of the slot adjacent the open end 2 except when the spring is shortened by movement of the head towards the end 3. The thickness of the stem 7, measured transversely of the body 1, or along a diameter thereof, diminishes constantly from end to end, and is least at the free extremity of the stem. Thus when a tuft of hair is coiled up on the bar, it can be pulled tight and the turns can be secured firmly in place with a clip inserted into the end 2. The bar 1 can now be pulled out of the ringlet by grasping the bar with the fingers at the closed end 3, but first the head or collar 5 is pulled back towards the end 3 to retract the stem 7 and withdraw the thickest part thereof out of the ringlet. The effective thickness of the bar is thus reduced, so that the coils of the ringlet do not encircle it so tightly and in consequence the whole forming device can be pulled out endwise without risk of impairing or deranging the hair. The lotion to cause the ringlet to maintain its shape is then sprayed or otherwise put on, and after a time the clip is removed and the hair is treated with a neutralizing preparation and finally washed. The operation is then complete and the ringlet keeps its shape. A ringlet so fashioned into shape is shown in Figure 3 as it appears when the bar 1 is taken out. The clip 11 holding the turns of the ringlet 10 remains in the ringlet after the extraction of the bar 1 and is indicated at 11. One or several ringlets can be wound.

With my invention the subjects head does not have to remain covered with curling devices after the ringlets have been formed. When ordinary curlers which cannot be removed are used, the lotion cannot be put on uniformly, but with my invention the lotion can be sprayed evenly on the outside and inside of the ringlets as soon as the curling device is pulled away from the ringlet. The operation is the same when tufts are wound spirally into curls.

In Figures 1 and 2, the device is shown as having a hollow body or member 12 which is a short bar with outside longitudinal ribs 13 extending from end to end. At one end is a central guide stud 14 with a collar or stop 15 at its extremity. The body is closed at one end by a plug 1b carrying the stud 14, and at the other by a plug In. On the stud is a slidable head 16, to which is fixed the arm or stem 20 extending towards the opposite end of the body 12. The stem lies along the outer edge of one rib, which has a longitudinal groove 17 in it, open to the inside space between the plugs in and 1b; and in said space is a spiral compression spring 18. The stem or finger 20 has a projection 21 extending through the groove 17 and into said space. One end of the spring seats against the plug 1:) bearing the stud 14, and the projection 21 abuts the other end of the spring. The stem is tapered as before with a shoulder 9 on the stem against the end of the slot 17. When the head is pushed on the stud 14 towards the stop 15, the stem is retracted to reduce the diametral thickness of the bar, so that it can be easily pulled out of the ringlet formed by winding the hair around it. The grooves between the separated portions or ribs 13 form spaces into any of which the clip 11 for holding the ringlet together can be inserted. The stem 7 of the device of Figure 14 also has a projection 21 I used to equal advantage in hair dressing,

permanent waving.

in the bar 1 to beengaged by the spring 18 so that the spring can push the collar and stem away from the end 3. f

In all cases, the curl or ringlet can be sprayed and well penetrated ry the permanent wave lotion after the turnsof the 'hair are eased and loosened a bit, as above set forth. None of the locks is broken and the formations are not impaired by handling. After the lotion is sprayed, the neutralizing liquid is applied and later the washing or rinsing is done. The comfort of'the V patron is greatly increased and the work of the attendant The 'devices' can be styling and is rendered much less difficult.

Having described my invention, what I believe to be new is: V I 'l. A hairtreating device comprising a having one end closed, a head slidably mounted on the bar adjacent said end, a stern aliixed to the head and extending along said bar towards the other end thereof; 7 said stern tapering in thickness transverselyofsaidbar, and a spring in said bar seated against said closed end for holding said head with the outer extremity of said stem adjacent said other end of the bar, said stern being thinnest at said extremity, said bar having longitudinal ribs on, its outer surface, one of said ribs having a groove open to the interior of the ,bar, said stem having a projection slidably disposed in said groove abutting the spring. a V

2. A hair treating device '-comprising a hollow bar having one end closed, a head slidably mounted 'on the bar adjacent said end, a stem affixed to the head and hollow bar extending along said bar towards the other end thereof,

said stern tapering in thickness transversely 'of said bar, and a spring in said bar seated against said closed end for holding said head with the outer extremity of said stern adjacent said other end of the bar, said stem' being thinnest at said extremity, said otherend .thereof being open, said bar having a longitudinal slot and said stem 2. projection in said slot engaging said spring. 3. A hair treating. device comprising a hollow bar having one end closed, a head slidablyrnounted on the. bar adjacent said end, a stern aflixed to the head and" extending along said bartowards the other end thereof,

said stern tapering in thickness transversely of said bar,

and a spring in said bar seated against said closed end for holding said head with the outer extremity 'ofsaid.

stern adjacent said other end of the bar, said stem being thinnest at said extremity, said bar having longitudinal ribs on its outer surface, one of said ribs having a longitudinal slot and the stern havinga projection in said slot engaging said spring. a

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